Apple M2 Ultra 60-core vs AMD Radeon RX 6800S

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Ultra 60-core and AMD Radeon RX 6800S videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

AMD Radeon RX 6800S

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
Around 64% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 119238 vs 72706

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 Jun 2023 vs 4 Jan 2022
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	119238 vs 72706

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6800S

Around 29% higher core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1398 MHz
34.1x more pipelines: 2048 vs 60

Core clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines	2048 vs 60

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Ultra 60-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6800S

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

119238

72706

Name	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	AMD Radeon RX 6800S
Geekbench - OpenCL	119238	72706
PassMark - G2D Mark		709
PassMark - G3D Mark		15408
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		8596

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	AMD Radeon RX 6800S
Essentials
Launch date	13 Jun 2023	4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	119	117
Architecture		RDNA 2.0
Code name		Navi 23
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	27.2 TFLOPS	8.602 TFLOPS
Pipelines	60	2048
Render output units	240
Boost clock speed		2100 MHz
Compute units		32
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		537.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		17.20 TFLOPS (2:1)
Pixel fill rate		134.4 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		268.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		100 Watt
Transistor count		11060 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	800 GB/s	256.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	128 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory clock speed		2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor		IGP
Interface		PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL		2.1
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.7
Vulkan